A Featured Customer: Biobitesize -
This month's Customer Showcase is BitesizeBio - a community platform that brings bioscientists together to share experience as well as wisdom and insights. Bitesize Bio's aim is to facilitate better science by improving scientists' abilities to perform scientific research, their technical expertise the personal development of their employees and well-being career opportunities, as well as funding.
Bitesize Bio support their mission through empowering their members to share advice, tips, practical experience, training, knowledge, and insights that scientists from all over the world. The information is shared via useful articles, webinars and audiobooks, and classes designed by of course.
Let's explore how Bitesize Bio makes practical data and knowledge accessible, understandable and concrete for the scientists in their network.
The Home Page
From the moment you land on Bitesize Bio's homepage You'll find their classes featured on the top of their page. This banner will entice users to sign up by explaining what the courses can offer. The course promises improvement at a tangible skill important to many academics and scientists and researchers, it's impossible not to click the enroll button!
In addition to their course banner, there are numerous articles, podcast episodes, and resources open and available to anyone who is looking for them. The wealth of information on the homepage entice visitors to discover more about their course offerings as they present the website as a reliable source of knowledge.
In Action
Course access settings permit you to set a set of criteria for the way a student gains and maintains access to your course. You can set a course to be completely free, without registration, with a only one-time payments, recurring subscriptions or even a recurring subscription.
When setting a course to gratuitous, no fee is needed, however the user is required to sign up or log in for access. This is an ideal option if you want to manually enroll students in your course, and then collect their email addresses. With an email list that you have, you are able to distribute newsletters advertising your other course options when they are accessible.
Focus Mode Keeps Learners Engaged
When you activate Focus Mode, your main navigational and footer elements will be removed from the page. Navigation for courses is always displayed in a sidebar tray, and course progress is displayed at the top of your screen. Control movement through the course by using Next/Previous, Mark Complete, or Back to the course. You are able to still log into your account from the upper right-hand corner.
Focus Mode is an appealing feature that will keep your students engaged in the coursework, and not other tabs on their web browsers. Paired with the gamification of a progress bar it is likely to increase engagement and completion rates with Focus mode enabled.
Do More with
Bitesize Bio has created a lively community of information Bitesize Bio, and you too can join! There are many ways you can use it on your site. It is possible to use a no-cost course that is paired to Focus Mode just like Bitesize Bio is doing to encourage open knowledge sharing all while collecting emails and expanding your reach.
How can help you achieve the educational goals of your company, students, or product?
If you're interested in finding out more, you can take an experience in our demonstration. You can experience from the perspective of a student or course creator's viewpoint in our complimentary demonstration. If you're ready for the creation of your own course, you'll be able to transfer any work you've created from the demo into the first course you've licensed.